PD able - Basic

Your profession is skilled territory. It takes time to learn and perfect, so you can operate with levels of competency that others can trust.

This topic is for the time you spend targeting your specialty, growing your expertise and keeping in touch with changes happening in the world.

All organisations have commercial needs, whether not for profit, government institution or a private company.

Managing people, understanding accounts, optimising resources or keeping abreast of legal issues are activities that nearly every professional has deal with in some capacity.

This topic gives recognition to the importance of being able to apply your professional skills in a real world environment.

Working to complete a formal qualification typically requires dedicated and lengthy commitment. Unlike other PD Activities, this is normally means time spent away from your profession with energy directed to the learning environment.

This topic recognises the special growth achieved while pursuing academically and profressionally recognised outcomes.

Real people bring real quality to their professional environment.

While many activities in your personal life do not directly relate to your profession, many times the same fabric applies in both spaces.

Time spent running sports clubs, helping with school camps, arranging a wedding or building a car all carry qualities that transfer into your professional environment. The challenges faced, planning and perseverance required all carry through.

Use this topic to recognise the learning from these 'out of office' situations, and note how the learning carries through to your working life.